“The list doesn’t destroy culture; it creates it”. Whenever you look in cultural history, you will find lists. In fact, there is a dizzying array: lists of saints, armies and medicinal plants; of treasures and book titles. We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That’s why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It’s a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don’t want to die.”

Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco, in his interview with Der Spiegel, hit upon the very essence of why we like lists. And his first line is the essence of what Culturalist is all about: a way to share culture in the form of lists.

In essence, Culturalist is a social network built around the platform of making and sharing lists. The lists can be of any topic, whether an artifact or human emotions. The point is to draw things together and share them, thus providing a look into who you are.